A foam obtained from the reaction between the polyetherpolyol and the polyisocyanate.

A resin with special characteristics. Paints based on polyurethanes are either one or two-pack, and they wear extremely slowly and are resistant to chemicals.

A high molecular weight material created from lower molecular weight constituents by chemical reaction. Polymers with resinous characteristics are frequently used in paints.

The new generation of advanced coast protection vessels to deal with potential emergencies.

Collection and subsequent pumping of viscous oil is difficult unless specially developed equipment is used for spill clean up.

The highly-sophisticated 3830t displacement multi-purpose ship built in 1998 by Stralsund shipyard, Volkswerft GmbH.

A substance that makes air, waters, soil etc dangerously dirty.

Pipes are pressure-tight cylinders used to contain and convey fluids.

A network of piping designed and assembled to serve a specific purpose. Piping systems interface, but exclude, major equipment, such as boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, engines, turbine etc.

Pipes, tubes, valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, bolting, hoses, expansion joints, sight flow glasses, filters, strainers, instruments connected to pipes, etc.

A service based on polar orbiting satellites which receive and relay distress, alerts from satellite EPIRBs and which provides their position (SOLAS, Chapter IV).

An electric rudderpropeller, see Electric podded propulsors.

The loading/offloading system for dry powder material (cement) developed by Merevido Europe B.B.

A valve which regulates the flow of a fluid. It is remotelyoperated as the correcting unit of an automatic control system. The actuator is operated by compressed air.

A thing used for connecting a piece of electrical equipment to the main supply of electricity.

A cable plough is a sophisticated seabed tool that creates and back fills trenchers in order to protect all types of submarine cable.

The plates of a hull, a deck, a bulkhead, etc.

The VIKING ENERGY is the world first LNG-fuelled PSV. The construction of the hull and superstructure was subcontracted to the Polish shipyard Maritim in Gdańsk from where it was towed to Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, for outfitting.

The property of a material that allows it to be extensively and repeatedly deformed without rupture and that allows it to retain its deformed shape after the applied force has been removed.

A solid material which contains one or more synthetic organic high polymers as essential ingredients.